Fr. Apostolos discusses the importance of remembering the love of Christ in our lives, and that we are good enough.

Good morning! It’s great to be home again to see all of you. It was great to be gone for a little while to see our children and our grandchildren, to baptize a new grandson. While I was away, as you can imagine, I got a little reading time in—always a good thing to do—and began reading a new book by a very gifted Orthodox deacon and writer, clinical physician, a psychologist, Dr. Stephen Muse, and a fantastic book which I would very much encourage…

Episode date: May 12, 2014
Transcript published: June 2, 2016

Fr. Apostolos shares about the ministry and mystery of motherhood.

As I have grown older in recent years, so much so apparently that my older brother is mistaken for my younger brother, I have had a recurring dream that gives me a great deal of comfort coupled with melancholy. It is a dream of very ordinary things, of happy days spent together with our family in those now distance years when all of our children where all of our children were still living under our roof. And the dream takes many forms, sometimes wrapped in the festive…

Episode date: August 11, 2014
Transcript published: February 5, 2016

Fr. Apostolos shares from 1 Corinthians 3, reminding us that our bodies belong to the Lord, "The temple of God is holy, and that is what you are."

I am sure you are aware NFL preseason football is underway and college football will begin very soon and sports retailers are stocking their shelves with team merchandise for the new season. Even I once designed a T-shirt for our cathedral GOYA youth group in Denver that was patterned in the widely used “property of” athletic T-shirts associated with professional and college sports teams in our case.

Episode date: July 15, 2014
Transcript published: October 30, 2015

Fr. Apostolos encourages us to let the light of Christ shine through us.

In 1993, there was a bit of a controversy on television and in the media when “Sir” Charles Barkley—he calls himself the “Round Mound of Rebound,” if you follow basketball—said in a Nike television ad that he is not a role model. You might remember this. It was quite the stir. He said, “I am not a role model.” Now, of course, what he meant was quite correct: he ought not be a role model, and as we found out…